I'm back today with more Stampers Anonymous Christmas cards!
Lets start of with one of my favorite sets -
Scribbly Christmas. The trees are all about 2 1/2" high....and really, the two sentiment fonts? Can't even express how much I like those!
I used Distress Markers to color the tree image then lightly misted it with water before stamping onto the Watercolor cardstock. The red stamped background was created using the Plaid & Nordic background stamp set.
There is a stamped star at the top of the tree image but I did not color it in, instead choosing to add the small mirrored star in it's place. I also used the Distress Marker Spritzer and Fossilized Amber Distress Marker to speckle the background.
There are two new Snowflake stamps. This one is called
Mini Weathered Winter and I like it because the varying sizes of snowflakes. Small tags, large cards? ...it does not matter, there is a snowflake that will work.
I chose to change up the traditional Christmas colors and use Tumbled Glass ink with silver embossing powder for the snowflakes.
I also added a Gumdrop to the sentiment flag. I colored the Gumdrop with Pool Alcohol Ink. Once dry, I lightly pounced over the tops of the little dots with Silver Mixative Alcohol Ink for a bit of metallic shine.
The Ranger Silver Embossing powder worked great on the snowflakes!
I also made tags using the
Scribbly Christmas set and the
Mini Halftone set.
I used different manila size tags and made other shapes like the circle and oval using the Sizzix Thinlits die - Labels.
Mini Half Tone set + Platinum Stickles buttons
"Scribbly" tree stamped with Distress Markers
Plaid stamp done on the bias + tree stamped with Distress Markers
Festive Berries Distress Ink + water makes for a faded vintage background (Nordic stamp). Tree stamped in Archival Jet Black and colored with Distress Markers and detailer water brush.
My very favorite tag...that plaid background on the bias again. This time Festive Berries Distress Ink on the stamp + water misted over the top to get a watercolor look. The large Mirrored Star colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink is the center piece!
Both tags cut from the Labels Thinlits set.
Oval tag - images from the Mini Half Tone stamp set embossed with Gold.
Mini Half Tones set + Archival Ink
Scribbly Christmas - tree stamped in Jet Black Archival + words in gold embossing powder + flicked with Picket Fence Distress Paint to create the snow background.
Added Crinkle Ribbon, Paper String, Red and White Trimmings and Typed Tokens to finish.
Well I hope you liked the stamp sets - so much fun getting to use them! Even though I know July is not the time I
want to be thinking about Christmas, it is the time I start getting ideas for cards, tags, gift wrapping. Otherwise, December sneaks up on me and I'm not prepared! It has happened more than once around here!
carry on,
paula
